From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 26 18:45:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE0816A523; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:45:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ache@nagual.pp.ru) Received: from nagual.pp.ru (nagual.pp.ru [194.87.13.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28A7343D8C; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:45:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ache@nagual.pp.ru) Received: from nagual.pp.ru (ache@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nagual.pp.ru (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k8QIil5s017944; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:44:47 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache@nagual.pp.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id k8QIilxX017943; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:44:47 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:44:47 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov To: Mikhail Teterin Message-ID: <20060926184447.GA17862@nagual.pp.ru> Mail-Followup-To: Andrey Chernov , Mikhail Teterin , current@FreeBSD.ORG, tjr@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200609202304.25537@aldan> <20060921154412.GA59729@nagual.pp.ru> <200609261302.40964.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200609261302.40964.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, tjr@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: replacing FreeBSD's -lgnuregex with GNUlib's version X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:45:24 -0000 On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 01:02:40PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Any news on this? I basically look at locale stuff, they sypport multibyte which is good. Someone must test its compatibility with GNU regex and understand in details nature of their changes/fixes/differences. Without this work we can't blindly replace stable code with unknown one just for reason it is actively maintained. > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:04:24PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > > A recent discussion on the gm4 and gnulib mailing lists over the merits > > > of gm4's bundling of its own regex implementation has produced the > > > suggestion, that we replace our src/gnu/lib/libregex (which is currently > > > obtained from fedora-glibc-2_3_4-21) with gnulib's implementation. > > > > > > The latter is claimed to be more actively maintained and with more bug > > > fixes, than glibc people have managed to incorporate. > > > > > > Does anyone have a strong preference for fedora/glibc implementation > > > currently in use, or should we follow this advice (source -- regex' > > > maintainer for gnulib -- CC-ed) and switch over? > > > > Please point to gnulib's regex sources to compare with. -- http://ache.pp.ru/